After spending the morning on the couch with the NYT

http://nyti.ms/1edFLVH

In line with the whole theme on obsessions, I find hoarding a riveting subject. What makes people hoard, what do they hoard? Why is it a stigma? 

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/15/opinion/nocera-a-world-without-privacy.html

The exerpt from Dave Egger's new book has shades of 1984, 'tis true. I want something like that for the POTMOTSP story. Absurdist yet familiar.